slavey

noun

1. (colloquial, historical)A male servant.
2. (colloquial, historical)A female domestic servant; a maid or maidservant.

   “I told a man on the links yesterday that I'd been a slavey for nine months. I was trying to explain why I was a suffragette […]”

   “"Doing? Not a Dam' thing. I mean, I was sitting on the bed lighting a cigarette. We'd just come upstairs. Everything was all right; old Peabody in Sydney and the slavey given a night off to go to the pictures."”

   “"The short-haired slavey who had opened the door now put in an appearance as waiter."”

3. A member of an Athabascan First Nations people indigenous to the region near the Great Slave Lake in western Canada

name

1. A language spoken by the Slavey peoples.

   “In the Northwest Territories, the languages with official status are English, French, Dëne Sųłıné (Chipewyan), Nēhiyawēwin (Cree), Dene Kǝdǝ́ (Northern Slavey), Dene Zhatıé (Southern Slavey), Dinjii Zhu’ Ginjik (Gwich’in), Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun and Tłįcho.”